Abstract—Functional flow block diagrams (FFBDs) are a traditional tool of systems engineering and remain popular in some systems engineering domains. However, their lack of form...
Allan I. McInnes, Brandon K. Eames, Russell J. Gro...
—In this paper, we propose a circular blurred shape model descriptor to deal with the problem of symbol detection and classification as a particular case of object recognition. ...
—Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of autonomous nodes used for monitoring an environment. Developers of WSNs face challenges that arise from communication link failur...
Raghavendra V. Kulkarni, Ganesh K. Venayagamoorthy
—Developmental robotics is also known as epigenetic robotics. We propose in this paper that there is one substantial difference between developmental robotics and epigenetic robo...
—Based on concepts of ecology modeling and specifi-4 cally on population biology, a methodology for describing a high-5 technology market’s dynamics is developed and presented...
Christos Michalakelis, Thomas Sphicopoulos, Dimitr...
—This paper introduces an algorithm for direct search of control policies in continuous-state discrete-action Markov decision processes. The algorithm looks for the best closed-l...
Lucian Busoniu, Damien Ernst, Bart De Schutter, Ro...
—Biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is a4 population-based evolutionary algorithm that is based on the5 mathematics of biogeography. Biogeography is the science and6 study of ...
Dan Simon, Mehmet Ergezer, Dawei Du, Richard Allen...
— Consider a scenario in which the data owner has some private/sensitive data and wants a data miner to access it for studying important patterns without revealing the sensitive ...
Kanishka Bhaduri, Mark D. Stefanski, Ashok N. Sriv...
— Most state-based approaches to fault diagnosis of discrete-event systems require a complete and accurate model of the system to be diagnosed. In this paper, we address the prob...